Since last week I have been seeing something fishy and it seems to be worsening. I tried many firewalls and they seem to be useless. I blocked all unwanted ports and only few ports are open so I found ...

I have configured 3 VMs: ossec server and two agents in CentOS 6 and Windows 2k8 R2. I have completed the setup and FIM and Log Management works smoothly. It also reports the new files. However, it ...

I have a couple of CentOS VMs as part of a class I'm taking, I'm just trying to understand how loose permissions (other than the obvious 777) can be taken advantage of.
The targetted account on VM1 ...

I want to know if my servers are still vulnerable under the following conditions...
My servers are private - only myself and trusted developers have access to them
We have enabled executables within ...

For PCI compliance I was required to protect our server against BEAST attacks. While I have correctly configured the apache / openssl settings to pass a scan, these settings have effectively limited ...

How could someone change the root password without changing chage -l root Last password change date? I know it was changed because it does not match the value in Keepass. I noticed when I tried to use ...

Is it possible to white list an IP address in mod_security?
I found white ist whole domain name in mod_security. But I want to white list only the administrator IP.
OS: CentOS 6
Server: Apche httpd ...

We run a mail server (postfix/dovecot/centos 6.4). The hardware is based on a supermicro chasis with IPMI features.
It also runs a web interface for accesisng mails(Apache web server )
Recently our ...

I am a QA Engineer, but have been tasked with creating a security testing platform. I have many years with Backtrack/Kali and my primary OS are Arch and Ubuntu. The Systems guys here gave me a CentOS ...

I'm using Windows 7 and decided to learn Linux Administration (Centos 6.4) using Oracle VirtualBox to host the Linux system.
In my network configuration I choose "Bridged Adapter". I set the VM's IP ...

If you are installing Joomla via cPanel's File Manager to your mywebsite.com (user mywebsite) account, you will upload the package to your server and extract the archive. All files will have the user ...

I'm currently trying to find out how one of our centos servers was compromised. We were experiencing malware on our sites. After searching I finally found the malware injecting into the sites. As it ...

I have a huge problem. In a nut shell, 2 days ago I noted a strange process going on with httpd, something I never saw before. That then led to me googling it, and OVH came up top with "Examples of a ...